From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jmartin@cs.ucla.edu (Jay Martin) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/01 Message-ID: <5kar43$tra@uni.library.ucla.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 238737201 References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5k60au$gig@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <33674E4C.446B@cca.rockwell.com> <5k88b3$340@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <3368A6FE.41C6@cca.rockwell.com> Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Roy Grimm writes: >Mostly theoretical. I did take a directed study in Ada (it wasn't >offered as a regular class at the time) which was my only collegiate >experience with any kind of software engineering. We spent all of our >time learning about data structures, algorithm analysis, operating >system theory, etc. The curriculum didn't address the development of >software as a whole. When it came to writing programs for class, we >were thrown at the VAX, given the script file which ran the compiler and >linker together, and given enough info about the 'edt' editor to get >started. That's all the more instruction we got on the development >process. Everything else we learned about that we found out from the >upper-classmen. >Fortunately, I wasn't satisfied with that. I went out and bought my own >C compiler and started tinkering. I wrote several programs on my own >that went way beyond the theory I was presented with. I was just too >hungry to be placated with the contrived examples the professors gave to >us. A classic example of what the academic Computer Science software competence vacuume does to this field. Is there any doubt why C is king and Ada is a joke?